Are these real?

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: warspite1



We don't mis-spell anything - its our language - we just like to **** off Gorns.[:D]

[:D]

[decaro]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: catwhoorg

Anyone remember the old Bob Newhart dialogue when he talks about John Wayne War movies.

"Did you ever think about how close to losing the war we were if he wasn't in it ?"

warspite1

John Wayne pfft... we have a new hero now [&o]

Batman?

[rustysi]

OK, I gonna get a whoopin'. IIRC didn't the DUKE beg off when he was drafted, something about last surviving male heir in his line (Marion something or another). So he could not have been in any of these places.[X(]

[decaro]

ORIGINAL: rustysi

OK, I gonna get a whoopin'. IIRC didn't the DUKE beg off when he was drafted, something about last surviving male heir in his line (Marion something or another). So he could not have been in any of these places.[X(]

from John Wayne, Man and Myth

By Pat Dowell

Sept. 25, 1995

After "The Big Trail" flopped, Wayne spent nearly 10 years of drudgery in the B-western trade, until stardom came at last in the John Ford film "Stagecoach" in 1939. To enlist in 1942 meant to risk all his new-found fame and growing wealth, and besides, as a father in his thirties, he was entitled to a deferment. Many in Hollywood waived their deferments, but the poor kid whose dad had tried to dirt-farm the Mojave Desert couldn't take the chance. Other actors did risk all, and some lost, returning to the public's indifference. Some of them were supplanted by Wayne himself, who took his deferments until service became a moot point, a fact he was ashamed of for the rest of his life.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/st ... /wayne.htm

[rustysi]

Thanks for the info Joe, and I'm not necessarily bashing him for that decision.

"Wayne was not alone in ducking World War II. Yes, he did what others did or tried to, but those others weren't necessarily so quick in later years to urge other men to risk their lives in war. Wayne was."

Its just what he later became that diminished his aura in my eyes.

[crsutton]

ORIGINAL: Skyros

I don't have shattered sword with me, but were the hits on Akagi aft of the island or midships and adjacent to the island. Every source I see says she had one solid hit near the island, a near miss and one that penetrated the deck and passed through to the water and exploded.

It appears to me as if the explosion is to far aft. What do y'all think?

Well, that does not have to be a bomb explosion. Once the hangar deck was on fire every thing cooked off. Lots of munitions and explosions throughout.

Never seen that photo before.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Joe D.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: catwhoorg

Anyone remember the old Bob Newhart dialogue when he talks about John Wayne War movies.

"Did you ever think about how close to losing the war we were if he wasn't in it ?"

warspite1

John Wayne pfft... we have a new hero now [&o]

Batman?

warspite1

That's not Batman - this is Batman (and Robin)

[decaro]

ORIGINAL: rustysi

Thanks for the info Joe, and I'm not necessarily bashing him for that decision ...

I seem to recall that even Wayne's friend and mentor John Ford took him to task for that decision.

[geofflambert]

Are we talking about Bruce Wayne or John Wayne? I'm getting confused.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Are we talking about Bruce Wayne or John Wayne? I'm getting confused.

warspite1

"Yes, its like that book, The Prince and the Porpoise".

"...and the Pauper"

"Ah yes, The Prince and the Porpoise and the Pauper...which one of us is the Porpoise?"

[witpqs]

Are you trying to bring some Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters into this discussion?

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Are you trying to bring some Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters into this discussion?

warspite1

No, Blackadder actually [:)]

I have just goodled what you wrote and... wow! I had never heard of that before...erm..interesting, I think [:D]

[decaro]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Are you trying to bring some Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters ...

Wasn't that the sequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?

[catwhoorg]

Don't know about a sequel, there was a whole genre built up after the "success" of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Not just Austin books mashed up either.


My wife looks at me funny when I talk about the Prince and the Porpoise...

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: catwhoorg

Don't know about a sequel, there was a whole genre built up after the "success" of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Not just Austin books mashed up either.


My wife looks at me funny when I talk about the Prince and the Porpoise...

warspite1

Hasn't arrived yet sir - we'll just have to make do as best we can.

[gradenko2k]

ORIGINAL: catwhoorg

Don't know about a sequel, there was a whole genre built up after the "success" of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Not just Austin books mashed up either.


My wife looks at me funny when I talk about the Prince and the Porpoise...

The latest one I've seen was Wuthering Nights, a modern retelling of the classic in the vein of 50 Shades of Grey

[wdolson]

How about Breaking Vlad? Makes 50 Shades of Grey look tame...

Bill

[zuluhour]

I wonder often if there is not a treasure trove of photos resting in drawers in Japan gathering dust.

whoops. I read page 1 and posted, did not realize the topic had changed. my bad...

[desicat]

[USSAmerica]

ORIGINAL: desicat

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